On Jun 1, 2011, at 20:01, Matt Mollison wrote:
> Christiaan,
>
> No, it does matter. I'm guessing you didn't actually try running it using .
> as the input. The find command I proposed to replace is called when the input
> is a directory (after `if [ -d "$1" ]; then`). You should know what happens
> with the find command, you wrote it. :)
No, I didn't (write it).
> (i.e., if the input ($1) is a directory, find all the PDFs in $1, then rerun
> the script ($0) with the PDF names.)
>
> I tried running with . as the input (also, I had to put double quotes around
> $parentFolderExt in `if [ $parentFolderExt != "pdfd" ]; then`, otherwise I
> would get the error "line 19: [: !=: unary operator expected"). Here's the
> output:
>
> $ cd ~/Desktop/test\ conv\ bundle/
> $ conv_pdf_w_notes_to_pdfds_03.sh .
> ./first.pdf
> 180:245: execution error: Finder got an error: Can’t make file
> "MacintoshHD:Users:<user>:Desktop:test conv bundle:first.pdfd" into type
> file. (-1700)
> ./subdir 1/second.pdf
> 200:265: execution error: Finder got an error: Can’t make file
> "MacintoshHD:Users:<user>:Desktop:test conv bundle:subdir 1:second.pdfd" into
> type file. (-1700)
> ./subdir 1/subdir 2/third.pdf
> 216:281: execution error: Finder got an error: Can’t make file
> "MacintoshHD:Users:<user>:Desktop:test conv bundle:subdir 1:subdir
> 2:third.pdfd" into type file. (-1700)
>
> It runs `skimnotes convert` fine and pdfds are produced, but it errors in the
> osascript section. When I `echo $file` before the final if statement begins,
> this is the output:
> /Users/<user>/Desktop/test conv bundle/./first.pdf
> /Users/matt/Desktop/test conv bundle/./subdir 1/second.pdf
> /Users/matt/Desktop/test conv bundle/./subdir 1/subdir 2/third.pdf
> I guess osascript doesn't like the /./ in there. Thus, the comments, label,
> and modification date don't get transferred.
>
> When I run it with my replacement of . with $PWD, things run as they should:
> $ conv_pdf_w_notes_to_pdfds_03.sh .
> /Users/<user>/Desktop/test conv bundle/first.pdf
> /Users/<user>/Desktop/test conv bundle/subdir 1/second.pdf
> /Users/<user>/Desktop/test conv bundle/subdir 1/subdir 2/third.pdf
>
> Matt
>
Probably better to just change the POSIX file assignments to something like
set thepdf to POSIX file "${file}" as alias
set thepdfd to POSIX file "${file}d" as alias
AppleScript file references are extremely buggy, always been, and I've given up
hope.
Christiaan
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jun 1, 2011, at 6:33, Matt Mollison wrote:
>
> > Also, it seems that the osascript part doesn't like '.' as the argument, so
> > if you'd like to operate on the current directory using '.', you can change
> > the top 'find' command to something like this:
> >
> > if [ "$1" = '.' ]; then
> > thisDir="$PWD"
> > else
> > thisDir="$1"
> > fi
> > find "$thisDir" -type f -name "*.pdf" -exec "$0" "{}" ";"
> >
> > Matt
> >
>
> That shouldn't matter, because it never gets there for a directory. This part
> is only called for .pdf files.
>
> Christiaan
>
>
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